This build focuses on two primary damage types.

1) Damage over time via Ailment Stacking.
2) Heavy hits increased by multiple modifiers that synergize well with Ailments.

Our ailment stacking is done in two ways each focusing on different ailment types. Our primary damage dealing ailments are picked up via our Physical attack skills while our buff/debuff ailments are picked up with our magical skills.

Physical Attack Skills
Bleeding Edge - This skill converts all weapon damage to Rend providing us with our first of 7 ailments. (This means that the skill will not add fire damage if you socket your weapon with a fire damage gem) ** By equipping a non-weapon Item with the +(Damage type) to attack skills suffix we ensure that with every swing of Bleeding Edge we are applying both Bleeding and Burning Ailments.

Wings of Ishmir - This is a great mobility skill, providing a multitude of buffs and helping us with our clear speed via the Twisting Harbinger node. The damage of this skill is determined by your overall damage output. We need to ensure that this skill is outputting Poison and Shock ailments. An easy way to do this is to add Damage gems to your main hand weapon. This damage will be converted to rend for Bleeding Edge, but prior to that conversion it will apply the socketed damage type to our Wings of Ishmir.

Magical Spells - We will use two spells to provide our debuffing ailments Cursed, Weakened and Stasis.

Arctic Spear - This skill with the Sublime Fracture and Beauty of Hope nodes provide us with not only our rage generation but a quick and easy way to apply Stasis and Weaken to every enemy we encounter. Simply spam this as you approach enemies.

Bulwark of Dawn - Applying the Sacred grounds node makes this a damage dealer which in turn makes it apply ailments. In this particular case we want it to apply Cursed.

For Bulwark to apply curse and Arctic Spear to apply Stasis we need to add Aether Damage and Shadow Damage to spells. Aether needs to be a higher amount so that the damage done by Arctic Spear can apply Stasis Ailment (If more explanation is needed here just comment and ill be happy to break it down).

Utility Spell - For your final skill slot you can get creative. I tend to use Sovereign Shout, although if you are using a Dagger you could use Mark of Impurity which is a good choice. Livor Mortis may even be a good option here. Have fun!

Our second damage comes in the form of a very heavy hitting Bleeding Edge thanks to the Despotic Perseverance node which increases damage for every ailment stack affecting the target, which in our case is 210... This is further increased by the passive node Immortal Offering which reliably provides a 100-125% damage buff via the use of our 7 Ailment Stack types. You can take this one step further with Blistering Embrace further increasing damage.

It would also be very easy to path to Frenzied blows for double damage, but I don't think its strictly necessary.

Because we have taken the time to apply stasis to our enemies we also make use of the Which Time Cannot Heal passive providing a second very large Bleeding Edge hit.

If you want to pick up some attack speed to increase your bleeding edge animation time you can pick up the Captured Velocity node for a quick and easy 75% increased attack speed score.

Defensively were using Dire Juncture, Branded Burst, Kingless Aegis etc..

1H Melee Weapon and Catalyst

All Wisdom - Interchange with Toughness until your comfortable. As you progress Ailment chance will be easier to manage through gear optimizations and toughness will become more important.

The tree below is still a work in progress. Let me know you thoughts!

https://wolcen-universe.com/builds/Obq7wy-bleeding-despot